Boy & Girl in Doorway of a Treehouse - Romance Greeting Card 12607B sweet children

sweet children

Later in the 1800s

this charming depiction has also garnered immense popularity beyond the holiday season

just before her 102nd birthday

first popped up on the Easter 1903 cover of Ladies' Home Journal

Boy & Girl in Doorway of a Treehouse - Romance Greeting Card 12607B sweet childrenINSIDE GREETING: Love does not consist in gazing at each other but, looking outward in the same direction. "With the spring comes Wendy" is the sweet, simple text accompanying this friendship scene. It's from the pages of The Story of Peter Pan (1907), a retold version of the 1904 play by Daniel O'Connor and illustrated by Alice B. Woodward. This rendition was the first illustrated version of the story before J. M. Barrie's novel Peter and Wendy four